Identity Quotes

A friend is someone

who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

My wife was afraid of the dark...

then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.

A friend is one

who knows you

and loves you

just the same.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like.

Design is how it works.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,

but in rising every time we fall.

Life is short,

but it’s wide.

And I remember going to the record studio

and there was a park across the street

and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because

it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

If everything you do needs to work on a three

year time horizon,

then you’re competing against a lot of people.

As I would not be a slave,

so I would not be a master.

This expresses my idea of democracy.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell,

it is simply purgatory.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r',

except at the beginning of a word.

You better work,

or life will work you over.

Imagine all the people living life in peace.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.

The leader leads,

and the boss drives.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

An eye for an eye…

we are all blind.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The problem with writing a book in verse is,

to be successful,

it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon.

It has to sound easy.

When you can do it,

it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on.

You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

I am a slow walker,

but I never walk back.